The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. And as many companies have already learned, quality hiring is now mandatory. In this paper, you’ll learn how the hiring environment […]
Posted on June 8th, 2012 by admin
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The House Ways and Means Committee just passed two bills that would eliminate two controversial restrictions on flexible spending accounts. ‘Use-it-or-lose-it” The first bill, the Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2011, was passed by the committee by a 23-6 vote. It would amend the “use-it-or-lose-it” rule governing FSAs that requires employees to forfeit to their […]
Posted on June 7th, 2012 by admin
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It’s no surprise healthcare costs will increase in 2013. They increase every year. But what may surprise you is the extent to which they’ll increase. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute — using input from health plan actuaries, industry leaders, analyst reports and 1,400 employer surveys — is projecting a growth rate of 7.5% for overall […]
Posted on June 6th, 2012 by admin
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Do you know how to calculate overtime pay for this employee without running afoul of the FLSA? Here’s the scenario: You pay a non-exempt employee who travels a lot on the job one rate for in-office work and another, reduced rate for when he’s merely on the road traveling and not doing normal work. Calculating […]
Posted on June 5th, 2012 by admin
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Here we go again — for the second time in two years, a female employee is suing her former company claiming she was fired for being “too hot” for the workplace. When Lauren Odes, 29, started work as a data entry professional, she asked what the dress code was. She claims she was told to […]
Posted on June 4th, 2012 by admin
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Employees quit their jobs for a lot of reasons. But we’re guessing not many leave and join the Big Top. That’s just one of many odd reasons people have left their job, according to research by Office Team. Among our favorites are those who quit: to join the circus to become an apple farmer to […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2012 by admin
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If a major player like Yahoo can’t catch the padded resume of its CEO, what chance do small firms have? Fear not — new research points HR pros to the areas candidates are most likely to fib. Eight percent of Americans admit to embellishing or exaggerating info on their resume, according to recent research from […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2012 by admin
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Periodically, we ask three HR pros how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: How to deal with a VP who might be overstepping his bounds. The Scene HR manager Stu Capper was pretty sure he knew why supervisor Breanne Doyle had asked to speak with him. “I thought Curtis’s open-door policy was […]
Posted on June 1st, 2012 by admin
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